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This page is being used to collect information about paperfolding designs folded from irregular templates or paper shapes. Please contact me if you know any of this information is incorrect or if you have any other information that should be added. Thank you.

There is a separate page for Tab and Slit Designs which may, or may not, be folded from irregular paper shapes.

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Polyhedra constructed from irregular nets - 1509 onwards

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Cardboard Modelling Designs - 1802 onwards

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Envelopes from irregular templates - 1897 onwards

'Teacher's Manual for the Prang Course in Drawing for Graded Schools, Books 1-6', by John S Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter S Perry, which was published by the Prang Educational Company in Boston, New York and Chicago in 1897, contains a brief history of envelopes and refers to an irregular template at the end of the book (not seen) from which an envelope can be folded.

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More detail about this design appears in 'Teacher's Manual for the Prang Elementary Course in Art Instruction Books 1 and 2 Third Year', by John S Clark, Mary Dana Hicks, Walter S Perry, which was published by The Prang Educational Company in Boston, New York and Chicago in 1898.

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1951

A 'Handbag' folded from an irregular template appears in 'Origami to Kirinuki' by Saburo Ueda, which was published by Kokkado in Tokyo, most probably in 1951.

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